As the Academy Awards aka the OSCARS made its presence felt in the world of performing arts for the 91st time last night, we bring to you the highlights of the show, the winners and all those events that made it matter at the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California in the United States.
The first time in three decades that the awards ceremony went hostless (after official host Kevin Hart stepped down), the Academy Awards 2019 was a surprising medley of performances and wrap up, as well as a mix of winners competing to beat out the most hopeful victors of the race.
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As the ceremony opened with a rousing performance from iconic rock band Queen, the tone of the Academy awards 2019 was immediately set and as many big names claimed the coveted honors for the first time, it was evident that even sans a host after 30 long years since 1989, the 91st season of the most coveted awards event was a truly remarkable affair.
Academy Award winner Julia Roberts thus had to abruptly wrap up the Oscars, thanking all the nominees after the producers of “Green Book” had accepted the ultimate honours with the Best Picture Award. Roberts did the closing honours with a special shout-out to A Star is Born actor Bradley Cooper’s mum Gloria Campano, who is a huge star on Twitter.
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Even as the Academy Awards 2019 was remarkable for the continuing runaway success of Bohemian Rhapsody and Roma (that went big in spite of missing out on the best picture award), an Indian documentary also found itself in the fray for the top recognitions.
Titled Period. End of Sentence, the Guneet Monga produced documentary had award-winning Iranian-American Rayka Zehtabchi as the director. A film about menstruation, specially relating to the taboos around it in rural India, winning an Oscar however came as a shock to many including an Academy member who admitted that the “well made film” is based on a subject that men considers ‘icky’.
Here are the full list of winners that made 2019 their year with prized claims at the Academy Awards this time around-
Best picture
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Green Book
Best actress
Source: Screen Daily
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Best actor
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Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Best supporting actress
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Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Best supporting actor
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Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Best director
Source: IndieWire
Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
Best original screenplay
Source: Zimbio
Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly
Best adapted screenplay
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BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee
Best animated feature
Source: The Verge
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best foreign language film
Source: Rolling Stone
Roma – Mexico
Best documentary feature
Source: GoldDerby
Free Solo
Best original song
Source: Variety
Shallow (A Star Is Born) – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
Best original score
Source: Pitchfork
Black Panther – Ludwig Goransson
Best production design
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Black Panther – Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart
Best costume design
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Black Panther – Ruth E Carter
Best cinematography
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Roma – Alfonso Cuaron
Best visual effects
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First Man – Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and JD Schwalm
Best make-up and hairstyling
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Vice – Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney
Best sound editing
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Bohemian Rhapsody – John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
Best sound mixing
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Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali
Best film editing
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Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman
Best animated short
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Bao
Best documentary short
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Period. End of Sentence.
Best live action short
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Skin